AmeriCorps NCCC Team Leader
AmeriCorps NCCC
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Term length
1/9/2025 - 11/25/2025
Application window
6/1/2024 - 9/30/2024
Location
Vinton, Iowa
Hourly pay equivalent
$18.03
Project summary
Helping to preserve and enhance a community's natural resources by working on trail development and maintenance; planting trees; removing invasive plant species; cleaning up rivers, streams, and beaches; performing water quality assessments; and leading environmental education workshops and camps for youth.
Opportunity description
You will lead a team through direct, hands-on service in the areas of natural and other disasters, infrastructure improvement, environmental stewardship and conservation, energy conservation, and urban and rural development. Your team could be doing anything from building a house to running a youth summer program depending on the needs of a given community. As a Team Leader, you will be crucial to your team's success. You'll be responsible for directing, motivating, and mentoring a diverse team of young people.
Benefits
- Education benefit
- Housing
- Healthcare
- Childcare
- Relocation expenses
Requirements and qualifications
Requirements
Must be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident; Must be at least 18 years old at start of the program.
Preferred qualifications
No experience required
Opportunity details
Focus area
- Natural resource preservation and conservation
- Biodiversity protection and restoration
- Waterway restoration
- Reforestation or afforestation
- Tree planting and urban forestry
- Disaster preparedness and recovery
- Disaster response
- Coastal wetlands restoration
- Local ecosystem restoration
- Soil and water conservation
Work environment
- Team based
- Traveling
- Indoor
- Outdoor